Race Media and International Affairs 101 Week 1
Week 1: Race and the Birth of the League of Nations
Attiah, Karen. “Woodrow Wilson and Cecil Rhodes Must Fall.” The Washington Post, November 25, 2015. (Gift Link, no paywall) https://wapo.st/4o31h8W
Cohen, Richard. “Woodrow Wilson Was Racist, but He Deserves Our Understanding.” The Washington Post, November 23, 2015. (Gift Link, no paywall) https://wapo.st/4lGEUEw
The Washington Post. “Princeton Protesters Occupy President’s Office, Demand ‘Racist’ Woodrow Wilson’s Name Be Removed.” November 18, 2015. (Gift Link, no paywall) https://wapo.st/44EktSI
Densho Digital Repository. “Newspaper Articles on Japanese ‘Threat’ in Early 1900s.” https://ddr.densho.org/browse/topics/185/?page=1
U.S. Department of State. Minutes at the Plenary Session of the Paris Peace Conference, 1919. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1919Parisv03/d7
Wilson, Woodrow. “Address to Congress, 1918.” Great War Primary Documents Archive. http://www.gwpda.org/1918/wilpeace.html
NPR – Code Switch. “The Treaty of Versailles and Its Rejection of Racial Equality.” August 11, 2019. https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/08/11/742293305/a-century-later-the-treaty-of-versailles-and-its-rejection-of-racial-equality
Japan Review. The Centennial Anniversary of Japan’s Racial Equality Proposal: Remaking the International Order after World War I. Japan Review, ISSN 2433-4456. https://www.jiia-jic.jp/en/japanreview/pdf/JapanReview_Vol3No3-4.pdf
Georgetown Law – IIEL. “Echoes of the Past: The Impact of Japanese Colonialism on Commercial Diplomacy in East Asia.” Institute of International Economic Law (IIEL) Blog, https://www.law.georgetown.edu/iiel/research/publication-opportunities/iiel-blog/echoes-of-the-past/
Jake Adelstein, “Japanese First and the Race to the League of Nations,” Tokyo Paladin (Substack), accessed July 15, 2025, https://tokyopaladin.substack.com/p/japanese-first-and-the-race-to-the.
W.E.B. Du Bois, “Open Letter to Woodrow Wilson,” Slavery in the North, Princeton University, accessed July 15, 2025, https://slavery.princeton.edu/sources/w-e-b-duboiss-open-letter-to-woodrow-wilson.
Reginald Kearney, The Pro-Japanese Utterances of W.E.B. Du Bois (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Amherst, ScholarWorks), https://scholarworks.umass.edu/entities/publication/c3958063-a338-4f06-9bb1-84bbe7fad9a4.
Seok‑Won Lee, “The Paradox of Racial Liberation: W. E. B. Du Bois and Pan‑Asianism in Wartime Japan, 1931–1945,” Inter‑Asia Cultural Studies 16, no. 4 (October 2015): 513–530, https://doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2015.1103012.
Du Bois, W. E. B. 1923. The Negro and the League of Nations. New York: NAACP.
Du Bois, W. E. B. 1947. The World and Africa. New York: Viking Press.